A few moments after defeating one of her fellow Captains with her Bankai, the Sixth Division Captain, Tamamura Tamao, found herself stopped inside the third district of the Rukongai. 'I know it came here...' she thought as she began to narrow her search for a hollow which could hide its presence inside of other beings. This thing needed to be handled before it further pressed the members of the Gotei Thirteen into the dire straits it had faced this afternoon. As such the Captain began to move slowly among these people, searching for what it was looking for.
The Hollow Tamao sought had long since materialized itself, taking the form of a lamprey with an elongated mask. It stood just outside of civilization on the mountainside, facing the white-haired Vice-Captain recently appointed to the 10th Division. "You... I will start again with you as my vessel. Then, I'll work my way back up to those Captains again!" the Hollow claimed. The Vice-Captain, Kumori Raizen, seemed apathetic to the words of this Hollow. "So, you're the cause of these problems. I was told to report if I found you, but... you seem very killable," Raizen said as his Reiatsu, and the Hollow's, both began to flare against one another.
Tamao took her search in a very urgent but calm pace, so as to avoid frightening any citizens. She thought it was likely very rare for them to see a Shinigami Captain as most of them seemed to flee her presence of their own accord. She however kept her senses on high alert and soon enough found herself atop a roof waiting to feel something which seemed more hollow. She fully intended to kill the creature once she found it, and then... it hit her out of nowhere. 'There!' she turned in the direction that would most quickly lead her towards the outskirts of this mountain and head there to finish the job of dispatching the hollow.
In a matter of moments, the lamprey Hollow was charging toward Raizen, who had yet to even unsheathe his Zanpakutou. In fact, Raizen's right hand was upon his face during the beginning of this assault. "This is a shame for you. I've been looking for this sort of opportunity," Raizen said as his own Reiatsu doubled. When this occurred, half of the power he held was that of a Hollow, and there was a ripple pattern-covered mask upon his face. His left hand reached out to grab this Hollow by its mask. This effort stopped the Hollow in its tracks, much to the Hollow's surprise. "Let me guess... With the power of two Captains backing you, you thought yourself capable of taking on a simple Vice-Captain and surprising whoever made you run out of the Seireitei with the power you still had leftover? That's a shame. You'd have been better off attacking another Captain."
The Hollow, Ghost, darted away from Raizen the moment these words were spoken. Surely this was only a temporary influx in power, and he had only been stopped during a moment of surprise. "Ahh. You're some trickster, Shinigami. It looks like you were able to boost your power enough to stop my attack, but there's no more of that!" True enough, the mask upon Raizen's face was already fading away, and with it, his power boost. Instead of seeming disappointed by this, though, he merely brought his right hand to his face again. "Hmph. I did say I was looking for an opportunity, didn't I? It was an opportunity to test my new abilities," Raizen stated. With that, he summoned his mask once more. The Hollow's eyes widened as Raizen regained his power boost and vanished from sight. When Raizen reappeared, he did so to Ghost's immediate fore, his right hand held out with a small collection of black Reiryoku within. "Killing you, though..." he said as the mask quickly shattered again. "Is easy enough with my own power. Hadou no Kyuujuu... Kurohitsugi." The energy in Raizen's hand erupted, reforming in the shape of a black box around the Hollow's body. Several spear-like protrusions were around this box, and all of them simultaneously shrank inward as the box collapsed. At the end, the Hollow was left with deep lacerations along its body. It began fading away immediately afterward, leaving traces of all the Reiatsu it had taken around the area. "Sou ka. Only one third its full power. Maybe more would have been possible if the mask stayed."
Soon enough this hollow's Reiatsu was disappearing and Tamao arrived on scene in time to see the creation of the high level Kidou spell but not the masked form this young man possessed. She was still quite surprised though, this individual was a recently made Vice-Captain and for him to show power like this was beyond what she'd expect of even a seasoned Vice-Captain. "Well done, Kumori-fukutaichou. And here I was searching to end that Hollow and there was a Vice-Captain capable of the task." Tamao said though she looked at the boy suspiciously. "Though it was agreed among Captains to tell their Vice-Captains to report any sightings of this particular hollow to avoid any potential problems..."
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